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Friday, August 31, 2012

Google+ers, please circle my "Mayo T Plus" page!

I use the macro feature liberally to create wallpaper-friendly photos

Also known in more colloquial (and honest) parlance as a "shameless plug", I would greatly appreciate if everyone using Google+ who has enjoyed my nature photographs, rants about language, or who may have an interest in my views on Japanese culture, to add my new Google+ hosted "business" page to their circles.

Why, you may ask, should you do so? Well, several reasons come to mind.

First, I have decided to begin populating this page, rather than use my personal G+ presence, to promote my "best of" photographs. Local foods and blurry candids may still be published to my Facebook timeline (as well as to pre-existing themed albums such as my pandas only album), but I believe that some of my pictures are actually good enough to use as desktop or mobile device wallpaper: hence the justification of this migration.

Second, I have in past done some fast and loose freelance translation - most recently, of a bunch of Beat Takeshi transcripts from his segments on a late night radio show during the 1980s that had a cult following, for someone's academic thesis. Noting that said material was so very NSFW (not safe for work) that other translators had actually declined to tackle it, I was simply grateful that I could puzzle out the extreme smut (which was easier to study online than, say, specialized technical jargon). Since this work isn't related to my full time, "mainstream" role, I decided I would discuss it on Google+, where I am hoping to find people interested in my views on informal language and how languages reflect culture.

Finally, I quickly discovered that for business pages, Google+ will only allow contacts to be added, if they add you first.